I have placed an order with Segor.de, who speak excellent English, to buy two modules for 6000. I shall fit one of them to my 6000, and if it goes well I shall offer to do someone else's... or sell the module on at cost. I shall photograph the process and post results. More to follow... wish me luck!

this module is the one "blessed" by Sharp, so it should literally be a 5 minute soldering job. I've now bought some high quality jeweller's tools so am ready to tackle dismantling the 6000 so I can also look at the flash and ram devices too.

the modules arrived yesterday, VERY well packed - box was 3"x3"x5" for two devices the size of my thumbnail and wafer thin! Segor are excellent sellers - respond "instantly" to email and goods arrived three working days after placing order!

I confirm that the devices do have integrated ceramic aerial (as ordered), and look just like the pix that Guylhem posted before.

sadly, it seems I was misled - after spending some time carefully dismantling my Tosa, and putting the module in place, it became apparent that the pitch spacing of the pads on the PCB doesn't match the spacing of the points on the module!

taking the Z apart wasn't too hard, but to get to the space for the bluetooth module means a total strip-down, there's practically nothing you don't take apart!

OMG! Disaster! I was taking more photos, to measure the pitch of the connectors and the bluetooth modules... when I was reassembling it and putting the wifi adaptor back in, I accidentally pressed down on the other side of the board and snapped the end of one of the Samsung K4S561633C devices, which is a BGA. I carried on putting it back together and prayed the damage was cosmetic but my 6000 is dead as a dodo... not even the OK memo will come up.

Looks like it's completely ruined. I could cry. If it were a TSOP or something replaceable, there'd be more hope. As it is, I think I've reduced my Tosa to a collection of scrap parts. I'm stunned. Can't believe I'm writing this.

If it's not C09, then what module is it? Somehow, I think I've heard about C19, would it be the one used in 6000 series?-albertr

I took close-up pix showing that the C09 is hard metric pitch, the PCB is definitely not. More at some point - I'm still working on fixing my file server whose hard drive died in the week meaning I'm rebuilding from scratch and restoring from backup!

Ouch! Sorry to hear about your 6000 disaster... Hopefully, the damage is only the DRAM chip itself, and not the CPU's memory controller. If so, it can be repaired by replacing the BGA chip, just reseach the local shops to find one that does it affordably.-albertr

Ouch! Sorry to hear about your 6000 disaster... Hopefully, the damage is only the DRAM chip itself, and not the CPU's memory controller. If so, it can be repaired by replacing the BGA chip, just reseach the local shops to find one that does it affordably.-albertr

It's definitely the dram chip - I can see a line across the surface denoting a hairline fracture.

Even so, I rebuilt it and hoped at least to get to OK prompt, meaning that the lower memory block is working, thus allowing me to do some sort of hack to get Z to boot with just half the memory - assuming that the PXA255 has a 16-bit memory bus. Sadly, no, no sign of life at all.

Heh, I'm a fixer at heart, so no problem! Besides, i owe you for your pesistance in helping me with my N00bish inability to make a GPRS connection work.

You should call up those distributors and ask them about parts, anyway. Even if they ask for a minimum of 100 chips, or something, It'll still be cheaper that £400 for a new Zaurus, and you can flog off the spares to other people with problems.